"Chilling Tales": Framing sequence: The night watchman at an icehouse passes the time by reading horror stories.

"The Gravesend Gorgon": A treasure-hunting sailor dismisses legends of a sea monster, only to discover the truth.

"The Monster of Hedgewood Moor": When a series of brutal murders are committed on the English moors, suspicion falls on the hulking, dim-witted brother of a wheelchair-bound explorer.

"The Lagoon Creature of Rising Sun": Sightings of a bizarre monster in Ohio.

"The Fountain": In a paradisical land where the citizens drink daily from a magical fountain of wisdom, an ambitious young man attempts to drink more than his daily allotment.

"The Girl Who Couldn't Die": A phony medium makes genuine contact with the spirit of a beautiful woman, only to learn too late the truth of her life and death.

"The Borrowed Face": A man kills his employer with voodoo, then uses a mask to impersonate him and steal his fortune. Of course, it backfires horribly...

"From Out of the Past": Three professors brag that mankind has achieved its pinnacle, but their boasts are deflated when they discover the ruins of a far more advanced civilization.

"Gilt-Edged Gnomes": A thief discovers the legendary treasure of the "little people," and pays the price.

"Next Stop: Eternity": A bus driver drops off a lonely old woman in the middle of nowhere, and sees her restored to youth when she's reunited with her long-lost love.